On one employee's first day she was assigned to observe the duties with the floor's regular pca. This turned out to be ONE of THOSE Days. To start things off, they cleaned up an incontient patient who wet and pooped in the bed. Then she got to be with a patient who was confused, combative, bellergient, and disoriented. Next came a code blue with the loss of the patient and plus another patient died.( this one was expected) She had to assist with the morgue care of both patients.

Now it is lunch time. She said that she brought her lunch and would eat it outside of the hospital. Now lunch is only 30 minutes. After 45 minutes she still had not returned from lunch. She was paged to return to the floor. No response.

So nursing service was notified and they called her home. Sure enough she was home and said that she had no intention of coming back. When asked why, she told of what happened in the first 4 hours of her first day on the job. No way would she come back even after being told that this was not a typical day.

Bless her heart. Some people have what it takes to work in a hospital, regardless of what kind of floor it is. Then there are those who should never even consider hospital work.

Nursing is a blessing everyday. No two days alike.